Seriously, Zaza?!?! Conte undid a lot of good work with that decision. Even if he's penalty expert (?) he ain't someone with experience in that situation. You could bring on someone like Pirlo last min just to take penalty but not a novice. Called him to miss even before seeing his obvious 'I'm gonna cock this up' facial hair

At least the penalty shootout provided some excitement and entertainment in an otherwise tactical game. Can't fault Conte doing the sub because Italy didn't really have many overly technical players on the field. I knew he was going to miss after what happened in the Poland game. There Blaszkowski was kept on the field through extra time to shoot penalties even though he had tired out in the second half and then he was the guy who missed it. A real shame for Italy and maybe things could have been different with De Rossi and Candreva there because their absence thinned out an already thin first XI.

christmasborocooper wrote:Loved how deflated Gary Lineker's voice was when he closed out the show saying Germany won

The good news is once people like Muller and Schweini are starting to miss like that in shootouts Germany is no longer unbeatable with it. Italy has a bit of a hit and miss record with it, and they had problems with them. It can change! Look at Argentina, they can only win a shootout against Holland these days and used to have a great record!

christmasborocooper wrote:Loved how deflated Gary Lineker's voice was when he closed out the show saying Germany won

The good news is once people like Muller and Schweini are starting to miss like that in shootouts Germany is no longer unbeatable with it. Italy has a bit of a hit and miss record with it, and they had problems with them. It can change! Look at Argentina, they can only win a shootout against Holland these days and used to have a great record!

Look at refs face, when Schweini wins the coin flip and chooses to shoot on the goal with the italian fans behind

It's actually pissed me off, and the pundits pretending Wales are playing well isn't helping. It's been like watching two boxers hug and lean on eachother for 6 rounds, fucking garbage, there weren't even any highlights other than a penalty shout which was apparently a foul but the ref was right not to give it. Thanks Howard.

Wales will disappear never to be heard of again. I was tired of hearing about how we can learn from the Welsh FA, learn from Chris Coleman, learn from the Welsh players, whatever the f**k. All they've done is beat the overrated Belgians.

They got further than useless England anything we could apply to our mentally weak player set up is better than what England has going for them. 40 plus years of of cowardly chicken professional players not being able to at least come up with what Wales did in these finals is totally unbelievable.